Not bad, after you Know what to expect

Rating: 8/10 (20 September 2013)

OK, so going in, I didn't know what this was aside from "big robot fight". After I heard the word "kaiju", I knew it was a Japanese manga-style tale. And it hit just about every single cliché from the "Kaiju" genre of anime and manga.
Not that thats a bad thing, especially if you don't normally watch Japanese media.
I can understand why so many if the American "professional" critics hated it. They don't understand the culture it comes from. Ironically, these same ideals used to dominate American media decades ago, when we weren't all emo about being a powerful nation.